Lincoln College invites you to attend the Lincoln Leads Seminar Series 2022.

All tickets are free, but must be booked in advance on Eventbrite by Sunday 6 February at 6pm: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/254122255507.

Panel
Alumna: Tessa Boase. English Literature graduate and social historian, on the dark side of fashion.
Fellow: Joseph da Costa. Historian of empire and imperial semiotics.
MCR Speaker: Branwen Phillips. 2nd year MPhil Student in Classical Archaeology, researching disabled experiences in ancient Greek healing sanctuaries.

Chair
Maria Murad. MPhil Visual, Material, and Museum Anthropology, studying filmmaking and photographic methods and practices.

When: Tuesday, 8 February, 5.30 – 6:45pm. Refreshments from 6.45pm
Where: Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College, Turl St, Oxford
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The Lincoln Leads Seminar Series 2022 takes place on Tuesday evenings 8 February, 15 February and 1 March at Lincoln College, Oxford. Each panel features an Alumnus/na, a Fellow, and a Student of the College, who will respond to a topical question linked to their research or professional experience. Each seminar will start at 5.30pm and include a lively Q&A session, followed by more opportunities to discuss and enjoy the refreshments from 6:45pm onwards. We have a fantastic group of panellists scheduled for the series, who aim to invite non-specialist audiences into their spheres of expertise. We therefore hope that you are eager to join them in conversation, and learn more about the exciting and diverse research connected to Lincoln.

This panel will probe how preconceptions may be challenged or subverted. Each speaker will present the audience with, and then talk about, an image which tells an unexpected tale. There is, however, intentionally a catch. Given the panel’s title, it is of course no secret that the images will be designed to tell an unexpected story: you as a potential audience member will expect your expectations to be defied.
The panel will play off of this very idea. The speakers’ images will be shared in advance of the event with confirmed panel attendees, who will be invited to attempt to work out what the images’ stories are before the talk. This of course presents potential challenges for speakers. However, it is also designed to spark fruitful discussion and dialogue, not only about the stories that the images tell, but about topics such as whether the Internet leaves room for the element of surprise when attempting exercises like this.

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